Code style with Annotations [closed]

Question

I can't make up my mind between

@MyAnnotation(param1="paramval")
public void foo(){}

and

@MyAnnotation(param1="paramval") public void foo(){}

Is there a best-practice emerging?

Answer 1

We use the first case.

Annotations don't fit on one line in some cases.

• What happens in that annotations keep adding up in our project, responsibility after responsibility. Having annotations for really different concerns on the same line becomes messy.
• Also, some annotation can become really big, and be multi-liners on their own (I think of Hibernate mapping redefinition in a subclass).

Answer 2

Annotations can have parameters, it can become very long if you put the annotation plus its parameters plus the method header all on one line.

@MyAnnotation(name = "This is the name", version = "1.0")
public void foo () {
    // ...
}